The Miscellaneous Writings of Joseph Story: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ... Second Edition (1852)

Justice Story's enormous influence on American law is demonstrated in this collection of his writings, edited by his son. Includes Story's autobiography that was written in the form of a fascinating long letter to his son, and many other articles, essays, lectures, and biographical sketches of judges and lawyers (including Chief Justice John Marshall and Associate Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington). Topics include a proposed course of legal study, maritime law, piracy and the slave trade, commercial law, codification of the common law and much more. Second expanded edition, the first edition having been compiled by Joseph Story in 1935 at the age of fifty seven. Originally published: Boston: C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1852. x, [i], 828 pp. Apart from James Kent, no man has had greater influence on the development of American law than Joseph Story [1779-1845]. He was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard, where he played a key role in the growth of the school and the establishment of its national eminence. Story was appointed the youngest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1811, where he was the author of several landmark decisions, such as Martin v. Hunter's Lessee. His many books have been cited extensively, and he remains an authority today.